Signals from Our Futures Past
Mike AmundsenExploring the social and architectural layers of information systems—from card catalogs to autonomous agents.
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The Ship of Theseus and behavior drift
The ancient Ship of Theseus poses a deceptively simple question. If every plank in a ship is eventually replaced, does it remain the same ship?
Software teams encounter a practical version of this question every day. Databases are replaced...
Practice Makes Progress
In a previous life, I was a full-time musician and composer.
I spent time every day in practice. Practicing my instrument. Sharpening my ear for harmonies and melodies. Honing my ability to convert what was in my head into notes on a page...
A long-lost meditative art
In a future where digital data passes through society as easily as blood through the body, a small groups of devotees isolate themselves in dim, soundproof rooms. There, away from the endless flow of generated output, they engage in a long-...
Writing is thinking (and grading is, too)
Two recent statements, one from Nature Reviews Bioengineering and another from the Modern Language Association, arrive at the same conclusion from different directions:
Writing is part of thinking and assessing writing is part of teaching....
The cost of always having the answer
A recent paper makes a simple but unsettling claim: AI assistance improves performance in the moment but reduces persistence and weakens independent thinking almost immediately.
In controlled studies across math and reading tasks, particip...
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